Comments - New Scientist Environment By George Myers Fri Aug 29 21:17:34 BST 2008
Back in the 1980s I met Anna C. Roosevelt, the former President Theodore Roosevelt's grand-daughter at a small "Computers and Archaeology" conference in the recently Forbes endowed college at Princeton University. The small "public archaeology" company I worked for had helped her map one of the mounds she was investigating in Brazil, on the world's largest freshwater island (the size of the US state of Indiana) Marajo Island. We had just started using the new infrared tacheometer "total station" surveyors use with a linked Epson HX-20 notebook computer (which caused a stir on the airplane to be kept off then). She later published in the American Anthropological Association (1999 Archaeological Papers Number 9) in the "Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World" Elizabeth A. Bacus & Lisa J. Lucero, Editors. As a one time participant in a proposal to film the vanishing rain forest there back in the early 1970s, to counteract the loss of oxygen and the consumption of CO2 I am very pleased and surprised by this research and hope it continues to get support. The stories of the cities stretching away to the east from Machu Picchu then are more than just stories!
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